Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Samuel Richardson
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Standard Name: Richardson, Samuel
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's three epistolary novels, published between 1740 and 1753, exerted an influence on women's writing which was probably stronger than that of any other novelist, male or female, of the century. He also facilitated women's literary careers in his capacity as member of the publishing trade, and published a letter-writing manual and a advice-book for printers' apprentices.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Anna Maria Bennett | AMB
advertised as published at Bath, with her name, her Agnes De-Courci, A Domestic Tale, an epistolary novel in the style of Richardson
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Bennett | Sentiment, however, prevails. In further plot twists, it emerges that Agnes is after all legitimate, while Lady Mary's apparently privileged daughter is illegitimate (and her wealth is not hers after all), since James Neville had... |
| Publishing | Mary Barber | This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice. Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 172n13 |
| Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's edition of Samuel Richardson
's Correspondence appeared in six volumes; she abridged the letters she chose by an average of about 30% and changed at least one or two words in all of them. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Richardson’s Correspondence? A Study of Her Editing”. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Vol. 54 , pp. 191-23. |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson
as the equal of Shakespeare
. In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson
(who thought this behaviour personally... |
| Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's... |
| Reception | Joanna Baillie | Charles Landseer
(brother of Sir Edwin Landseer
) exhibited at the Royal Academy
a painting from JB
's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 511 |
| Literary responses | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | Bibliographer Melvin D. Palmer
assigns to these an important place in the history of French-English prose fiction in the formative years that saw the rise of the modern novel. Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d’Aulnoy in England”. Comparative Literature, Vol. 27 , pp. 237-53. 237 |
| Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe. The novel is available... |
| Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels was posthumously published, with a preface which may be by Samuel Richardson
. London Magazine. C. Ackers. 8: 416 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | Critics have debated how far the abbé Prevost
and Samuel Richardson
(in his first two novels) were influenced by The Illustrious French Lovers. Shelly Charles
accepts that PA
's heroine Angélique was a model... |
| Publishing | Mary Astell | Astell alleges a specific provocation for it: she had just been reading the duchess's memoirs, a case-study of a bad marriage, in which both sides were to blame. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press. 153 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | MA
influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Mary Chudleigh
, Elizabeth Thomas
, Judith Drake
, Damaris Masham
(although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob
, and Jane Barker |
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